Mahdi Hassan Obeid

Mahdi Hassan Obeid (died 13 October 2015), also known as al-Hajj Abu Rida, was a commander of Hezbollah in the Syrian Civil War.

Biography
Mahdi Hassan Obeid was born in Ansar in the Beqaa Valley of Lebanon to a family of Shi'ite Lebanese, and he became a field commander of Hezbollah. Obeid was one of the leaders of the organization in the Syrian Civil War, and he fought against the followers of Wahhabism in Syria alongside the Syrian Arab Republic. Obeid was killed to the north of Hama during the 2nd Northwestern Syria Offensive, and news of his death broke just a few hours after the death of Hassan Hussein al-Haj, another Hezbollah leader.